Cancer funding is frozen, but Musk just got $38 million today

[BelemNole]

I wonder why this one is ok and other spending is not?

Outrage after Elon Musk's SpaceX awarded $38M government contract

The federal government awarded Elon Musk's company a $38.85 million contract on Monday as the billionaire works to slash other contracts.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Tom Paris]

Pretty sure Elon knows the cure for cancer is on Mars.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Did not see that one coming. LOL. I'm sure the maga scum think that's peachy keen.

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

The reality is manned spaceflight is a dick measuring contest right now and nothing more. The moon missions, Mars.. all dick measuring. We are decades from making any profitable venture from it. So if we need to slash the budget, manned space exploration is it. But no doubt king Elon won't touch that funding.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Pretty sure Elon knows the cure for cancer is on Mars.

Him and trump should go there and look for it. And take all the magats with them.

 

[St. Louis Hawk]

Boys, you have to let Elon wet his beak.

 

[Chishawk1425]

**** this illegal immigrant terrorist

 

[mnole03]

These people are so corrupt. It’s ridiculous.

 

[SoProudNole]

Apparently Trump has face cancer. WTF?

 

[ICWestfan]

I wonder why this one is ok and other spending is not?

Outrage after Elon Musk's SpaceX awarded $38M government contract

The federal government awarded Elon Musk's company a $38.85 million contract on Monday as the billionaire works to slash other contracts.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Is there a link to Cancer Research funding being cut? Or did you just quote Omar in the title? Thanks!

'So let me get this straight, he wants contracts for cancer research cancelled but says let keep contracts for his company Spacex to do research,' Rep. Ilhan Omar posted.

 

[HerkyOwnsCy]

I think Elon will find a way to bat 1.000 in protecting his government welfare train.

 

[BelemNole]

Is there a link to Cancer Research funding being cut? Or did you just quote Omar in the title? Thanks!

'So let me get this straight, he wants contracts for cancer research cancelled but says let keep contracts for his company Spacex to do research,' Rep. Ilhan Omar posted.

Experts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for Science

The reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs.

time.com

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Was he low bidder?

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

"A judge tried to take a stand again Elon's invasion of the Treasury Department records. So Elon publicly posted the full name of the judge's daughter, along with data about where she works, and a tax document. If that isn't a crime, I don't what is."

 

[lonestar50]

Was he low bidder?

We'll never know. All we can do is ask Elon and he'll confirm he was

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

Maga Iowans love that the University of Iowa is losing NIH grants. Hopefully related to any illness their loved ones may have.

 

[CRazzle]

 

[seminole97]

The reality is manned spaceflight is a dick measuring contest right now and nothing more. The moon missions, Mars.. all dick measuring. We are decades from making any profitable venture from it. So if we need to slash the budget, manned space exploration is it. But no doubt king Elon won't touch that funding.

Unfortunately, there are geo-political (astro-political?) considerations to just ceding the Moon and beyond to China, because they're going, whether we do or not.

With respect to profitable part, COVID threw a wrench in the start of this project, but it appears to still be on:

the Sacramento start-up Orbital Assembly Corporation (AOC) has announced plans to open a space hotel by 2027. As the first of its kind, Voyager Station is slated to be a luxury resort designed to accommodate 280 guests and 112 crew members, complete with a restaurant, a bar, a concert hall, a gym and even a cinema.

If this sounds preposterous, Tim Alatorre, OAC’s vice president and architect behind the hotel, understands the skepticism. But it won’t be long, he insists, before such talk is commonplace. “I think it’s going to be a normal thing, where your mom went to space, your dad went to space,” he says. “Being an astronaut is not going to be a novel thing anymore, because everyone has done it.”


Venture capital is already funding efforts to mine the asteroid belt.

The old environmentalist saw about how the planet doesn't have the resources to support an American consumption rate for everyone is going to be moot, because everyone wants to consume like an American, so it will be profitable.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

Only $850,000,000 less than Biden gave him in 2020.

 

[BelemNole]

Only $850,000,000 less than Biden gave him in 2020.

Help me out, I don't recall Biden freezing all other funding.

 

[mnole03]

It’s hilarious that Elon’s response was that his contract was a good contract.

Also, he didn’t propose the contract. His employees did.

 

[runkpanole]

No conflict of interest at all!

 

[OrlandNole]

Only $850,000,000 less than Biden gave him in 2020.

Hot take, as usual.

 

[FAUlty Gator]

Hot take, as usual.

Space X was given almost a billion by Biden without a peep from anyone. But 5% of that given to him by Trump gets you all in a tizzy. Yeah. Hot take indeed.

 

[mnole03]

Space X was given almost a billion by Biden without a peep from anyone. But 5% of that given to him by Trump gets you all in a tizzy. Yeah. Hot take indeed.

They froze new contracts, but Trump’s biggest donor is exempt from the freeze.

 

[libbity bibbity]

Pretty sure Elon knows the cure for cancer is on Mars.

Joe Biden didn't cure cancer? He promised that he would.

 

[BelemNole]

They froze new contracts, but Trump’s biggest donor is exempt from the freeze.

He knows, he just wants one of his patented YS False Equivalencies! It's been at least a day.

 

[luvmyhawks]

No conflict of interest at all!

Shit, they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. It’s like they are giving us all a big FU.

 

[torbee]

Maga Iowans love that the University of Iowa is losing NIH grants. Hopefully related to any illness their loved ones may have.

At least cancer rates here are going down, right? RIGHT?

 

[torbee]

Shit, they aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. It’s like they are giving us all a big FU.

Again, the time is over for saying "it's like they . . ." or "it's as if he . . ."

There is no "like" or "as if" they are saying FU to all Americans who aren't part of their grift. Loud and clear.

 

[bagdropper]

At least cancer rates here are going down, right? RIGHT?

"Let the cancer flooooooooooooooooow through you"

 

[torbee]

Space X was given almost a billion by Biden without a peep from anyone. But 5% of that given to him by Trump gets you all in a tizzy. Yeah. Hot take indeed.

Are you really too dense to understand it's not the grant funding people object to but rather the blatant hypocrisy?

That's pretty dumb even by your admittedly low standard.

 

[ICWestfan]

Experts Call NIH Budget Cuts an 'Apocalypse' for Science

The reductions target indirect costs that cover administrative and equipment costs.

time.com

Thanks for the link. Really interesting to think that over 50% of a fed grant is used for "overhead". That needs to be fixed.

 

[BelemNole]

Thanks for the link. Really interesting to think that over 50% of a fed grant is used for "overhead". That needs to be fixed.

I'm sure you're thrilled about the new $400 million for armored teslas!

 

[FAUlty Gator]

Are you really too dense to understand it's not the grant funding people object to but rather the blatant hypocrisy?

That's pretty dumb even by your admittedly low standard.

Yeah. Pretty shitty. I see it.

What’s your opinion on Biden saying he’s not going to pay for student debt ever. Then making a complete 180 and spending $5 billion on it for the sole purpose of winning an election when you realize you’re numbers are down? Since you seem to be so against that type of thing now, and all. I’m sure we find post after post of you and Belem being outraged by that.

 

[torbee]

Yeah. Pretty shitty. I see it.

What’s your opinion on saying you’re not going to pay for student debt ever. Then making a complete 180 and spending $5 billion on it for the sole purpose of winning an election when you realize you’re numbers are down? Since you seem to be so against that type of thing now, and all. I’m sure we find post after post of you and Belem being outraged by that.

One is garden variety bullshit politics.

The other is upending checks and balances and embracing authoritarianism.

It’s like saying “oh sure, you are reallly complaining about that metastatic lung cancer, but I didn’t hear you bitching about that mildly sprained ankle.”